Definition of Waggery. Meaning of Waggery. Synonyms of Waggery

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Definition of Waggery

Waggery
Waggery Wag"ger*y (-g[~e]r*[y^]), n.; pl. Waggeries. [From Wag.] The manner or action of a wag; mischievous merriment; sportive trick or gayety; good-humored sarcasm; pleasantry; jocularity; as, the waggery of a schoolboy. --Locke. A drollery and lurking waggery of expression. --W. Irving.

Meaning of Waggery from wikipedia

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- epitome of a Wag". Fashion writer Shane Watson coined a collective noun, "waggery". One can also be "Wagged".[citation needed] In 2010, the Equalities and...
- Verbruggen): You'll hear with Patience a dull Scene, to see, In a contented lazy waggery, The Female Mountford bare above the knee. Katharine Eisaman Maus also...
- of the post-war psychology of four injured American aviators. Their mad waggery and reckless drinking ends darkly for three of them, but the fourth, Cary...
- For he is tenacious of his point. For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery. For he knows that God is his Saviour. For there is nothing sweeter than...
- his works sometimes include a romanticism which combines eroticism and waggery with more erudite influences such as Petrarch. The worlds presented in...
- the concept is called a "iugling booke" ("juggling book") or "booke for Waggery". It contains a complete description of how to prepare a blow book. The...
- member of the party gave his name as Sir Charles Ingle in a "spirit of waggery". The name was then used on the prestigious guest list at their stop in...
- got the thing to his liking. In those moments, there were none of the waggeries and wisecracks of his leisure hours; we were concentrating on the solemn...
- is witless and tasteless". Chodorov and Fields had used "the same old waggery and same old schmaltz", updated with a few new tricks and topical references...